Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 14

August 14:

• 1777 - Birth of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)

• 1856 - Death of Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)

• 1860 - Death of André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)

• 1865 - Birth of Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)

• 1866 - Birth of Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)

• 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint

• 1933 - Birth of Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate

• 1941 - Death of Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)

• 1958 - Death of Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)